Automatic test tube plug extraction apparatus
CA 1288933 C · Owner: Itoh, Teruaki · Inventors: Itoh, Teruaki
Overview
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A rack, with a plurality of test tubes arranged on it, in m columns and n rows, is transported into a main housing by a rack-inlet mechanism. In the main housing, tube-extracting mechanism extracts the tubes from rack, row by row, while the rack is being transported by a rack-transporting mechanism. The tubes are then conveyed, one by one, by a tube-conveying mechanism. A plug-extracting mechanism pulls each test tube conveyed by the mechanism and the plug closing this tube, away from each other while holding, the tube and the plug, thereby extracting the plug from the test tube. The test tubes are further conveyed by the tube-conveying mechanism after the plugs have been extracted from …
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- Granted September 17, 1991. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended September 17, 2008.
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